sure. I'm happy to take some load off Pat's shoulders :D

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:08 AM, alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> uuuhhh!  It works perfectly!
>
> Thank you so much for the help!
> Have a great day.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
> On Aug 3, 7:56 pm, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > you can add an attribute like
> >
> > has 'day_of_week is NULL', :as => :no_event, :type => :boolean
> >
> > then add in your search
> >
> > Model.search :with => {:no_event => false}
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:52 AM, alex <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Hey Pat,
> >
> > > Thanks for your reply!
> >
> > > From your explanation, I understand where my problem comes from:
> > > Some courses are not associated to any event... so when I search for
> > > courses associated to events with day_of_week = 0 it also returns the
> > > courses that are not associated to any event.
> >
> > > Is there any workaround so that when I search for 0 it doesn't return
> > > the courses not associated with any event? (if not, I'll have to
> > > migrate my events so that I don't use day_of_week = 0 anymore)
> >
> > > Thanks again!
> > > Alex
> >
> > > On Aug 3, 7:07 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hi Alex
> >
> > > > A couple of suggestions:
> >
> > > > * Remove the :type => :integer from the attribute - you're dealing
> with
> > > an array of integers, not a single one, so this just confuses Sphinx.
> TS is
> > > smart enough to recognise arrays of integers.
> >
> > > > * Use actual integers, not integers-as-strings, in your filter.
> >
> > > > Also, it's worth noting that Sphinx treats NULLs as 0's - so if you
> have
> > > events attached to a course which have NULL for the day_of_week, it'll
> come
> > > through as 0.
> >
> > > > Hope this helps.
> >
> > > > --
> > > > Pat
> >
> > > > On 04/08/2010, at 11:47 AM, alex wrote:
> >
> > > > > Hello,
> >
> > > > > I'm having a problem searching for attributes with a value equal to
> 0.
> >
> > > > > Here is what happen in irb:
> >
> > > > >>> Course.search(:with=> {:days=>["2"]})
> > > > >  returns the corresponding records
> >
> > > > >>> Course.search(:with=> {:days=>["0"]})
> > > > >  returns all the records, while I'm expecting only a few records to
> > > > > be returned.
> >
> > > > > Here are the pieces of code I think are involved:
> >
> > > > > course.rb
> > > > >    has_many :events, :through => :tracks
> > > > >    ...
> > > > >    define_index do
> > > > >      has events(:day_of_week), :as => :days,  :type => :integer
> > > > >    end
> > > > >    ...
> > > > >    def self.advanced_search(search, sort = nil)
> > > > >      with_params = {}
> > > > >      ...
> > > > >      if (!search.days.empty?)
> > > > >        with_params[:days] = search.days
> > > > >      end
> > > > >      ...
> > > > >      search(
> > > > >        search.keywords,
> > > > >        :with => with_params,
> > > > >        :sort_mode => sort_params[:sort_mode],
> > > > >        :order => sort_params[:order]).collect
> > > > >    end
> > > > >  end
> >
> > > > > Can anybody help me understand why I don't get the expected result?
> >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Alex
> >
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